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Morality in Public Administration

Jaime L. Kucinskas and Mariana Costa Silveira. 2026. “Acts of moral courage among civil servants under democratic backsliding: A comparison of the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations” (International Review of Administrative Sciences special issue)

Jaime L. Kucinskas. The Loyalty Trap. 2025. Columbia University Press. *2026 Best Book Award, Public and Nonprofit Management Section, Academy of Management

Jaime Kucinskas and Yvonne Zylan. 2023. “Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution and Resistance Under the Trump Administration” American Journal of Sociology 128(6)

Jaime Kucinskas. 2023. “Moral Decision-Making Processes in their Organizational, Institutional, and Historical Contexts” Handbook of The Sociology of Morality, Volume 2 (eds. Aliza Luft, Steve Hitlin and Shai Dromi)

Spirituality, Movements, and Social Change

Evan Stewart, Jaime L. Kucinskas, Jacqui Frost and Bradley Wright. 2026. “Clarifying the Relationship between Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health: A Model Robustness Approach” Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Braunstein, Ruth, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester. 2026 “Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion” American Sociological Review

Evan Stewart, Timothy D. Dacey, and Jaime Kucinskas. 2024. “Lagged Cultural Identities and the Underestimated Civic Significance of Spirituality” Book chapter for The Shape of Spirituality, edited volume by Galen Watts and Dick Houtman, New York: Columbia University Press, 177-208.

Jaime Kucinskas and Evan Stewart. 2022. “Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship Between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement” American Sociological Review

Larry W. Isaac, Anna W. Jacobs, Jaime Kucinskas, and Allison McGrath. 2020. “Social Movement Schools: Sites for Consciousness Transformation, Training, and Prefigurative Social Development” Social Movement Studies

Jaime Kucinskas. 2020. “Racial and Class Gaps in Buddhist-Inspired Organizing.” Religion is Raced. Eds. Penny Edgell and Grace Yukich. New York University Press.

Jaime Kucinskas. 2019. The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing Change from the Inside Out. Oxford University Press
* Honorable mention, ASA Sociology of Religion Section 2019 Distinguished Book Award, and includes chapter awarded the 2013 Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Sociology of Religion Section

Jaime Kucinskas, Bradley Wright, and Stuart Riepl. 2018. “The Interplay between Meaning and Sacred Awareness in Everyday Life: Evidence from a Daily Smartphone Study” The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

Jaime Kucinskas, Bradley Wright, Matt Ray, and John Ortberg. 2017. “States of Spiritual Awareness by Situation, Social Interaction, and Time” Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Kateri Boucher (student) and Jaime Kucinskas. 2016. “‘Too Smart to be Religious?’ Discreet Seeking Amidst Religious Stigma at a Secular Elite College” (Social Inclusion)

Jaime Kucinskas. 2014. “The Unobtrusive Tactics of Religious Movements”  Sociology of Religion

Pedagogy

Zachary Schuman, Jaime Kucinskas and Rev. Sharon Baugh. “A Team-based Teaching Approach to Critical Service Learning” (Forthcoming, Teaching Sociology)